Spectator Quotes

192 quotes by 166 authors

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for… — Christopher Hitchens
I think the government should be spying on all Arabs, engaging in torture as a televised spectator sport, dropping daisy cutters wantonly throughout the Middle… — Ann Coulter
Honesty in art inspires and moves me. I am passionate about creating truthful experiences as much as I love being the spectator to a brilliant… — Crystal Reed
My faith in the Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total, and I am not going to sit here and be an idle… — Barbara Jordan
Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the… — Edward Abbey
The functional freedom that anybody can buy a gun and go out and murder a lot of people at a McDonald's is prevalent, yes. But… — J. G. Ballard
In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. — Bridget Riley
Itâ€™s a very new, not to mention vulgar, idea that the spectatorâ€™s experience should be identical to, or even have anything to do with, the… — Samuel R. Delany
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude… — Isaac Babel
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye. — Bernard Malamud
When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in… — Ingmar Bergman
The spectator, the contemplator, the opposer of war have their hours with the enemy no less than uniformed combatants — Richard Eberhart
When mothers talk about the depression of the empty nest, they're not mourning the passing of all those wet towels on the floor, or the… — Erma Bombeck
Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the… — Vsevolod Pudovkin
The duty of a film director is to focus more on the soul of the spectator. — Ken Loach
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic
I realized that I was connected to Africa. I wasn't just a Colored girl. I was part of a whole world that wanted a better… — Assata Shakur
When the peacock has presented his back, the spectator will usually begin to walk around him to get a front view; but the peacock will… — Flannery O'Connor
We have already noticed the difference in the attitude of a spectator and of an agent or participant. The former is indifferent to what is… — John Dewey
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its dis-empowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a… — Michael Haneke

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